9 Best Articles in 2021
VICE
Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
VICE
~11 min read · From 2017 · A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking.
Gizmodo
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met
Gizmodo
9 min read · From 2017 · In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
The Atlantic
China Is the First Surveillance Superpower
The Atlantic
20+ min read · 2020-07-29 · Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
Fast Company
Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web
Fast Company
5 min read · From 2018 · With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.
Guardian Tech
Internet privacy: the apps that protect you from your apps
Guardian Tech
8 min read · 2020-02-16 · Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight
The New York Times
What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go?
The New York Times
20+ min read · Mar 18th · When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.
medium.freecodecamp.com
How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
medium.freecodecamp.com
5 min read · From 2016 · “Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove
The New York Times
Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
The New York Times
~20 min read · 2019-12-19 · What we learned from the spy in your pocket.
Bloomberg
Palantir Knows Everything About You
Bloomberg
20+ min read · From 2018 · Facebook may currently be the black sheep when it comes to privacy and data violations, but it isn’t the only company capable of watching every step you take. Bloomberg Businessweek writers Lizette Chapman, Jordan Robertson and Peter Waldman profile the big-data firm Palantir Technologies, which has evolved from helping the US government catch terrorists to assisting companies monitor their employees and helping law enforcement detect possible offenders. A common thread that runs through both companies is their desperate need to make money and please investors – which, as it turns out, is at odds with protecting people’s privacy.
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The New York Times
If You Care About Privacy, It’s Time to Try a New Web Browser
The New York Times
6 min read · Mar 31st · A new crop of internet browsers from Brave, DuckDuckGo and others offer stronger privacy protections than what you might be used to.
WIRED
What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?
WIRED
3 min read · Apr 7th · The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers.
WIRED
Encryption Has Never Been More Essential—or Threatened
WIRED
2 min read · Apr 5th · As we communicate more digitally, governments encroach more on our privacy. End-to-end encryption cannot be taken for granted.
Slate
A South Korean Chatbot Scandal Shows the Threat A.I. Presents to Privacy
Slate
6 min read · Apr 2nd · A chatbot was trained on more than 10 billion conversations between romantic partners. Then the trouble began.
spreadprivacy.com
Use DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
spreadprivacy.com
4 min read · Apr 9th · Google has created a new tracking mechanism called FLoC, put it in Chrome, and automatically turned it on for millions of users. It's bad for privacy, which is why we're now blocking it in the…
WIRED
Data Brokers Are a Threat to Democracy
WIRED
2 min read · Apr 13th · Unless the federal government steps up, the unchecked middlemen of surveillance capitalism will continue to harm our civil rights and national security.
Guardian Tech
She sued for pregnancy discrimination. Now she’s battling Google’s army of lawyers
Guardian Tech
5 min read · Apr 9th · Chelsey Glasson alleged she had been discriminated against while pregnant and had witnessed others being treated similarly
anonymousplanet.org
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
anonymousplanet.org
2 min read · Mar 13th · How I learned to start worrying and love privacy
WIRED
Antitrust and Privacy Are on a Collision Course
WIRED
2 min read · Apr 12th · Facebook is being sued for weakening data protections. Google is being sued for strengthening them. Can that paradox be resolved?
buff.ly
A South Korean Chatbot Scandal Shows the Threat A.I. Presents to Privacy
buff.ly
5 min read · Apr 4th · A chatbot was trained on more than 10 billion conversations between romantic partners. Then the trouble began.
